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The Ottoman road to war in 1914 : the Ottoman Empire and the First World War /
"Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded, ' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have cl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Cambridge military histories.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded, ' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the Ottomans enter the war because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams? Based on previously untapped Ottoman and European sources, Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic study challenges this consensus. It demonstrates that responsibility went far beyond Enver, that the road to war was paved by the demands of a politically interested public, and that the Ottoman leadership sought the German alliance as the only way out of a web of international threats and domestic insecurities, opting for an escape whose catastrophic consequences for the empire and seismic impact on the Middle East are felt even today."--Publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511551987 0511551983 9780511465062 0511465068 0511464320 9780511464324 9780521175258 0521175259 1107199506 9781107199507 0511736886 9780511736889 1281982482 9781281982483 9786611982485 6611982485 0511462743 9780511462740 0511461992 9780511461996 0511463537 9780511463532 |